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kashkhan on June 1, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Paul Allen's new rocket-launching plane

the plane structure is all carbon/CFRP. you can see in the earlier pictures in the hangar before.

http://www.stratolaunch.com/gallery.html

the black is cfrp under the white paint.

Scaled Composites has some secret CFRP processes of construction which non Americans are not allowed to know about under ITAR regulations, so i cannot tell you haha.

rbanffy on June 1, 2017 [–]

> Scaled Composites has some secret CFRP processes of construction which non Americans are not allowed to know about under ITAR regulations

Everybody knows that. We just don't want you to know we know ;-)

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